Elements of mechanics: for the use of colleges, academies, and high schools (1859)
Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr · leaf 57
t of the direc-tion of the parallel forces, and will remain the same so longas their intensities and points of application remain un-changed. The point whose co-ordinates we have just found, is calledthe centre of parallel forces. Resultant of a Group of Forces in a Plane, and applied at… … 3?C0SCL Fig. 28. Through any point 0 in the plane of the forces, draw anytwo straight lines, OX and 0 Y,at right angles to each other, andlying in the plane of the forces ;assume these as co-ordinate axes.Denote the angles which theforces P, P, jP, &c, make with —the axis OX, by a, a, a,…
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